In the absence of legislation, it is certain that those who employ the services of men will be their political masters; and it will follow that their Acts of Parliament will be adapted to the needs of property.

That shrinkage of the purpose of the State will mean for most not merely hardship but degradation of all that makes life worthy.

Upon those stunted existences, indeed, a wealthy civilization may easily be builded.

Yet it will be a civilization of slaves rather than of men.
The individualism, that is to say, for which Adam Smith was zealous demands a different institutional expression from that which he gave it.
We must not assume an _a priori_ justification for the forces of the past.

The customs of men may represent the thwarting of the impulses of the many at the expense of the few not less easily than they may embody a general desire; and it is surely a mistaken usage to dignify as natural whatever may happen to have occurred.